[Gvsig_english] QUESTION gvSIG 1.9 (BN 1253) -- Future of gvSIG and Sextante

[Francisco José Peñarrubia]

Hi Simon.

I will answer some of this questions from my personal point of view, as 
one of the developers of gvsig, (and friend of Victor, BTW :-) ).

About Sextante as a library, I think is a good idea. This way, many 
project can use the library and it leverages Víctor to do all the 
bindings by himself. In fact, gvSIG bindings were developed by him in 
earlier versions, and in latest version Nacho (the one who developed de 
big part of raster in gvSIG has evolved them).

About not being "goaded" by pointing everyone to one or another version, 
firstable, I need to search "goaded" in google, because my English is 
not as good as it should be.... ;-). After that, no, I don't think is 
something strange. Sextante has a new release, and if you need Sextante 
0.5 you can install by yourself or use OA digital edition, that comes 
with it installed. Is more easy for many people. And you will have also 
some other plugins, in order to help us testing them (they are not 
finished and are "unstable").

About Sextante + gvSIG in the future... My opinion is that we will be 
togheter, and there will be always a gvSIG+Sextante distribution. In 
fact, we are planning a new 1.9.1 release to fix some of the more 
anoying bugs, and we will try to put the latest Sextante release (if it 
is possible. There are some problems, for example, latest release will 
need java 1.6, and CIT (the public administration that pays the bill) 
still have a lot of computers with 1.5, so we need compatibility with 
1.5. Maybe the solution will be to make 2 distributions, one with 1.5 
and other with 1.6, I don't know).

These are only my personal thoughts. The decision process is driving by 
a commitee, but there is always a possibility to make an "unofficial" 
distribution, like OADE [1] or the latest gvSIG portable (also with 
Sextante, and with Vista and 7 compatibility (thanks to AI2, the people 
who is developing the 3D plugin), and with the collaboration of Víctor 
to put Sextante, CSGIS, and some others (Jorge Gaspar, and my self, for 
example)).
BTW, there is another "flavor" in gvSIG for Mac, thanks to Agustin Díez 
and the people of AI2 (again) [3].... ;-)

Best regards, and keep going with your how-to manuals, and remember that 
the code behind all these releases is very, very simillar. Thanks a lot 
for your hard work.


Fran Peñarrubia
gvSIG Team.


[1] http://oadigital.net/software/gvsigoade/gvsigoade2010beta
[2] http://www.gvsig.org/web/plugins/downloads/gvsig-1-9-portable
[3] http://gvsigmac.blogspot.com/2010/03/big-news-gvsig19-working.html


Simon Cropper escribió:
> Hi,
>
> A recent post by Victor outlined the roadmap for Sextante.
>
> In it he indicated he intended to make Sextante into a library and 
> allow various developers to assimilate this library into their 
> projects, rather than maintain a plug-in system which requires 
> constant rejigging to ensure the bindings work.
>
> Surprisingly, despite Victor pointing everyone to OADE 2010, the 
> developers of gvSIG (core project) were not goaded into a response.
>
> So I am asking... What is the position of the gvSIG Developers 
> regarding Sextante (you have had enough time to talk about this)? Are 
> you planning to incorporate the upcoming library into gvSIG or will 
> you let this plug-in languish? I suppose the question is also relevant 
> for the next version of OADE.
>
> I think this is an important question as Sextante elevates gvSIG into 
> a product that can be used in a production environment; without it 
> gvSIG lacks important basic functionality.
>
> And at a personal level, I am in the final stages of preparing my 
> templates for my how-to manuals -- should I be writing my 
> documentation for OADE 2010 (which incorporates Sextante) or 
> gvSIG+Sextante or if the use of Sextante is uncertain, other upcoming 
> packages? I am also on record stating that gvSIG+Sextante is the first 
> FOSS GIS that I could use in a production environment. There is also 
> an upcoming paper in OSGeo Journal to that elk. So, will these 
> statements hold true in the future or will the gvSIG product fall back 
> to just the core modules?
>
> -- 
>
>
> Cheers Simon
>
> Simon Cropper
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